Lead Generation Specialist

Posted by James Obermayer on Apr 29, 2014 10:42:00 AM

Tags: B2B Marketing, Marketing & Sales Alignment, Announcements

1 Comment

Keeping Poor Performers Beyond Their Expiration Date?

It's a Problem for Sales and Marketing!

“Weed the garden,” I said to the company president. “You have people who haven’t made quota in over a year and you’ve kept them employed, listened to their excuses, and accepted..

Lead Generation Specialist

Posted by Ginger Conlon on Apr 23, 2014 8:00:00 AM

Tags: B2B Marketing, Marketing & Sales Alignment, B2B Sales

1 Comment

Sales and Marketing, Stop Blaming, Start Partnering

Sales and marketing do get along—in organizations that foster collaboration.

By Ginger Conlon, editor-in-chief, Direct Marketing News

Is it really marketing’s fault that sales can’t close deals? Is it the sales team’s..

Lead Generation Specialist
6 Comments

And People In Hell Also Want Ice Water

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint.

He stands 6’5” in custom-made cowboy boots, and..

Lead Generation Specialist
0 Comments

PowerViews with Chris Tratar: Execs Need to Support ‘Sales-First’ Culture

Everyone in sales recognizes that there is an unfortunate gap between marketing automation and customer relationship management (CRM). When 80 percent of marketing-qualified leads fail to convert into sales-qualified..

Lead Generation Specialist

Posted by James Obermayer on Feb 18, 2014 8:22:00 AM

Tags: B2B Marketing, Marketing & Sales Alignment, B2B Sales, Guest Blogs

5 Comments

True Story: Without a marketing plan, he planned to fail!

As Casey Stengel said, “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up someplace else.” For this company ‘someplace else’ had been growth, but at low margins, with chaos in the sales ranks, and a poorly installed..

Revenue - Inbound - Nurturing = The GAP. We guarantee you'll be surprised by your actual metrics. Try our Lead Revenue Calculator
Get the Calculator

filter blog posts

  • Search

Top 5 posts

How Much Leads Cost

I review a lot of content on this topic and am amazed at what I find written about lead cost. For example:

Why Don’t Companies Want to Talk to Anyone?

It’s truly strange when companies enter the stealth mode. They hide phone numbers, dial-by-name directories, and employee names,..

What Should the Sales Close Rate Be?

I’ve read and heard (from a well-known industry analyst firm) that best-in-class companies close 30% of sales qualified leads..

Gold Calling vs. Cold Calling

I've written many blog posts on the fact that cold calling isn't dead. In fact, doing the right amount of research, adding a..